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AN u el i P us A ly 21 . op i ted ° at N N EG R rrifollowi?g El ßesolutions were nau rulllic Meeting held in the Great Room, Exeter. Hall, on Fat DIT, Maya. The Right Hon, the Lord BROUGHAM, in the Chair. 1. On the motion of Sir GEOROP. STRICKLAND. M.P., seconded by the Rev. J. H. JOHNSON, Vicar of Tilshead, Wiltshire. That It is our first duty to acknowledge that Divim Providence which has prospered the efforts of the friends of the negro race, in awakening on their tchalf the sympathies of the British nation, and eassring one branch of the Legislature to resolve that the system of ap. prentiecship in the Colonies shall entirely and immediately cease and determine. 2. On the motion of Ilm.sar Hex DLLt, EN , M. P. , seconded by the Rev. Dr. Nroatsov.. That while the success of the motion of Sir Eardley Wilmot is highly satisfactory and encouraging, the meeting feels that the subse. quent declaration of Lord John Russell, in defiance of the resolution of the Mouse of Commons—the unequivocal and universally expressed wishes of the people of these realms, loudly call for our renewed and continue,' exertions on behalf of the apprenticed negroes ; and this meeting, undismayed by such a declaration of determined hostility on the part of the Ministers of the Crown, resolves to persevere in Its obvious course of ditty, and never to desist until the negro population of the British colonies are released from their bondage and placed by the British Legislature in the safe and happy conditicn i.f freemen under the Government, and protection of wise, just, and equal laws. S. On the motion of DANIEL O'CONNKLL, EN., M.P., seconded by the Rev. JOHN BURNET. I That we regard with the deepest regret and indignation the issuing of an Order in Council, under date of V e I:2th July, 1834, for the in. troduction of the native inhabitants of the East Indies into British Guiana as indented labourers, for a period of five years, convinced that such Older in Council is in effect the revival of a Slave trade, and the commencement of an odious system of slavery in that colony, detrimental alike to the interests, the morale, and the happiness of the enfranchised negroes. by subjecting them to unjust competition to the spirit of caste, and the influence of idolatry. And we do solemnly and deliberately deem that the dignity of the Crown, the honour of the Britisb nation, the interests of humanity, and the claims cf religion, demand that so flagrantly vicious an order, should be immediately reversed. 4. On the motion of Wm EwART, Esq., seconded by Joenue PIIILD, Esq., M.P., _ _ That we view all bounties and protecting duties upon West India produce not only as a heavy tax upon the peop!e of this country, but also as a stimulating premium upon coerced and unconpensated labour in the colonies ; that it is therefore incumbent upon us to use our utmost effbrts for their abolition ; that this duty has become more urg sit at the present crisis, in consegnence of the commencement of a new slave trade from India, and the announcement of vigorous and determined resistance on the part of some of the West India body (sanctioned and encouraged by the existing Government) to all efforts for the immediate termination of the apprenticeship system. S. On the motion of the Rev. T. M. M4CDONNHLL, of Birmingham. a:conded by JOHN BROWN, Boroughreevt of MAneheater, That we present our grateful aeknowlidgements to Sir E. Wil. mnt, the mover, G. P. Villiers, FAq., the wonder, and to the other Honourable Members of the House of Commons, who, by their able advocacy or votes upon the debate of Tuesday, the 112nd indant, have rendered invaluable service to the eause of negro emancip:ition, and carried a resolution—" That the apprenticeship system in the Colonies shall immediately and entirely cease and det, mine." S and 7. On the motion of the Rev. J. ALMS, iecondect by the Rev. J. SUERMAN, That we regard with the highest admiration the general &foxd con duct of the apprenticed labourers, under circumstances of the greatest difficulty, provocation, and injury, and deeply sympathise with them under their numerous wrongs and sufferings, and that whilst we Nvou'd encourage them to pursue the same peaceable and orderly course in future, we wo,ld earnestly caution them against entering into contracts tor lab•ur with their masters, exe pt with the counsel and advice of their friends. .That fully convinced, from long experience and incoatr,vertible evi,:ence, that the Co'onial Legislatures, as at present constituted, are not to be entrusted to legislate for freemen, we solemnly deprecate the trust confided in them, and earnestly hope that the Priri•h Parliament will fix by wise, just, and equal laws, the future legal position of the negro population of the Colonies. R. On the motion of W. T. BLAIR, Esq., of Bath, seconded by G. W. ALEX•NDBk. Esq., That to the Right Hon. Lord Brougham we would present our warmest thanks for his continued, earnest, and eloquent advocacy tif this great cause, to which so large a portion of his life has been devoted, and for his kind and prompt consent to preside, and the valuable aid lie has rendered on this occasion WILLIAM MORGAN, lion. See T HE COMMERCIAL GAS-LIGHT and COKE COMPANY. To be incorporated by Act of Parliament or Charter. Capital, 100,000/. In 20,000 Shares of 51. each. Deposit 11. per share. Temporary Office of the Company, No. 3, Abohurch-lane, London. DI IZEQTOI2.3. Chairman—James Goldie, Esq. Deputy Chairman—John Lamont , Esq C. S. Butler, Esq. J. Turner, Esq. - P. Ernst, Esq. P. Wildbore; Esq. H. Heathorn, Esq. A. Wilton, Esq. B. G. Hodges, Esq. With power to add to their number, not exceeding ten Directors in all. The qualification of a Director to be sixty Shares. COMMITTER. Chairman—Mr. Bingley, Shoreditch. Deputy Chairman—Mr. Rogers, Whitechapel. Mr. Boswood, High-street, S hore- Mr. Goode, Mile-end- road. ditch. Mr. Morris,iSun Wharf, Rateliti. Mr. R. R. Craig, Whitechapel. Mr. Pilgrim, New Gravel-lane, Mr. Drew, Church -street, Shore- Ratcliff. ditch. Mr. Stannenutt,Brook-st.Ratcliff. Mr: Dyke, Mile-End. ;Mr. Swat ton, Spitaltlelds- market. Mr. Eaton, Norton-folgate. 'The qualification of a Member of the Committee to be 20 Shares. ' BANE as-s. Eastern Branch of the London and Westminster Bank, Ne. 67, Whitechapel. The Directors and Committee have secured a pieec of ground in every respect suited for the erection of the Company's Works, most eligibly situated for supplying Gas through the whole District, as well as for landing coals. Applicatiorkfor Shares to be made to the Directors, at the tern • porary ,Office, of the Company, No. 3, Alichurch-lane ; to any Member of the Committee, Or to Mr. James %Vetenhall, Broker to the Company, and Publisher of the Course of Exchange, No. 13, Copthall-court, either per:6olly or by letter, post free ; and those persons who intend being supplied with Gas by the Company, will note the same in their application, that the preference they are er.- titled to may be given them. SALES BY AUCTION. LEASEHOLD RESIDENCE WITH SHOP, KENNING• TON CROSS. MR. VENTO\I will SELL by AUCTION, at the Auctiort Mart, - 'on THURSDAY, June 7, 1838, by order of the Administratrik -of Mr. John Mullis, deceased. An eligible LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, comprising a brick built Dwelling-house, with Bakers' Shop, nine bushel Oven, and outbuildings, situate No. 10, New-street, Kennington-cross ; held under the Duchy of Cornwall, for 99 years, from 1834; at a ground rent of 21. , and let on an agreement for three and a half years, from Michaelmas last, to Mr. John Hensby, baker, at the annual rent of 301. May be viewed, and printed particulars had, of Mr. Harper, sa licitor, Kennington-cross: Mr. Ventom, Angel-c , ,urt, Thro b .. morton-titres{; and at the Auction Mak. Valuable and attractive LEASEHOLD ESTATE, Strand, held under the College of Oxford, at a low Ground Rent. mt. vENTom will SELL b y AUCTION, at, the Auction Mart, on Txtrasnar, 7th of June, 18,3!4, at Twelve, in one lot, by Order of the Mortgagees, with consent of the Assignees, of Frederick Webb, a Bankrupt—The following very Desirable Leasehold Property : The NORFOLK ARMS WINE VAULTS, No. 238, Strand, Let on Lease to Mr. King, whereof 134 Years, wanting 21 Days, were unexpired at Lady DaZ last, at the annual rent of 701. Also a SPACIOUS RESIDENCE, with Glazed-fronted Shop, Numbered 291, Strand, in hand, but recently let on Lease, at 631. Also a DWELLING HOUSE„ with a Double Glazed-fronted Shop, No. 38, Holywell-street, Strand, on lease to Mrs. Cheese man, whereof 12 Years will be unexpired at :Michaelmas next, at the annual rent of 311. 10s. Also a HOUSE and SHOP adjoining, being No. 37, in the Oc cupation of Mr. Bennett, Bookseller, Tenant at Will, at 301. The whole held under the President and Scholars of Magdalen College, Oxford, on a Lease to be granted to the Purchaser for 30 Years from the 6th of December, 1833, at a Ground Rent of 411. 125., and the whole has been usually rene,,yeAlat the expiration of the first Ten Years of the Term for another period of 30 Years, on Pay ment of a Fine, May be viewed by permission of the Tenants—Printed Particu lars had on the Premises ; of Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, Faulk ner and Follett, Solicitors, 1, Bedford-row; Mr. ,Stedman, Soli citor, 10, Broad-street-buildings ; Mr. Howeliffe, Solicitor, Sto gumber, near Taunton, Somerset; James Clark, Esq., Official Assignee, St. Swithin's-lane ; Mr. Ventom, Angel-court, Throg morton-street ; the St. Michael's Tavern, St. Michael's-alley, Corahill ; and at the Auction Mart. WOODSPUN, BERKS. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, at the Cross Keys, Speenhaniland, on FRIDAY, the 15th day of June, 1838, at Three o'clock in the afternoon (unless previously disposed of private contract), A FREEHOLD double-walled and slated SPORTING VILLA, of pleasing elevation, approached through a thriving shrubbery, seated in very luxurious meadow of 33.. t l2e., and situated at Woodspun, within two miles of the capital town of Newbury, containing, un the upper floor, four lofty bed chambers ; ow the ground-floor are dining and breakfast rooms ; excellent kitchen and pantry, dairy, brewhouse (with servants' room over), and a pump of good water, and on the basement two capital cellars, each fifteen feet square. Within a walled yard is a stable, two stalls, coach house, fowl house, &c. Pleasure and very productive kitchen garden, and bounded on the North by a trout stream. The premises are exonerated from land tax and tithes. Rites moderate ; and six hundred and fifty pounds may be left on the property at five per cent. The property may be viewed on application at the house, and immediate possession had. For further particulars, and to treat fur the same, apply to Mr. Thomas Nalder, Estate Agent, Speenhamland, Newbury (if by letter post paid.) ALFIRST-RATE HOTEL and BOARDING HOUSE adjoining, in Cheltenham: to be LET on LEASE, or SOLD, formerly well know*' as Fisher's Hotel and Boarding House, but since named the CLARENCE HOTEL, &c., in consequence of his late Majesty having sojourned there when Duke of Clarence. This establishment has enjoyed for upwards of thirty years a very extensive connection, and has been a principal resort of the most distinguished visitors to Cheltenham. Th e Hotel and Boarding House are distinct buildings, contiguous to each other, and are situate in the centre of the town, in a most convenient position for access to all the spas, walks, and drives of that favourite watering place, and very near to the depots of the Cheltenham and Great W' the Birmingham and Gloucester Rail 'tting rooms, 38 best bed rooms, 13 iisite of f ices. The Boarding House ing rooms and drawing rooms, 11 rooms, and 10 servants' bed rooms, died to these buildings are baths, a ,houses with standing for 24 car ioose boxes, and numerous convenient 's will be let from Lady-day next tired. treat for a lease or sale, apply, if Lawrence and Newmarch, Great W esterr; Union, and the I w s• The Hotel contains 13 sit ' bed rooms, with all rein; ~. ,tainist44, i l eft wublic dinin,c / ' P l ili:6- " * ". 11 4 s, 34 best bed 1 with .14 nee ces. Attacl brewery, pleasure Oarden, coach- (... ri!les, stabli n i form horses, loo s( ()Nem s.e eitus s i ve prem i x . s for a term years, or sold if requi `-- • ". s ,,' For. *fatther particulars, and to i A t, liy. 1 tter postage paid, t o M essrs. c. -- ""4 !Ars, eirenee4ter. ~,,, ofti -_,! THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 183& IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Mar 25. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD and others, from the Commons, brought up the Custody of Infants Bill and other Bills. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a petition relative to national education in Ireland. Lord WYNFORD presented a petition complaining of some acts of cruelty committed under the New Poor-law Bill. Earl RADNOR said it was ridiculous to suppose that an old man of 89, and blind to boot, was kept at hard labour on the treadmill. NEGRO SLAVERY. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from the procurators in Paisley, in favour of the Scottish Law Reform Bills. Also several yeti. Lions from congregations in favour of negro apprenticeship abolition. Lord BROUGHAM postponed the presentation of some hundreds of petitions he had received on the subject of slavery, and the endowment of the Church in Scotland. In consequence of what had taken place in another place the matter did not press, and he would not interfere with the subject to be brought before the House by a Rev. Prelate In answer to a question from Lord FITZGERALD, The Marquis of LANDSDOWNE ►aid the Government would net oppose a clause for promoting emigration or other auxiliaries for illSarillg the success of the working of the Poor Law (Ireland) Bill. The y would, however, prefer to wait and see what the work_ ing of the Bill might be before the subject of emigration was finally considered. The Marquis of DO WNSH IRE presented petitiona from six parishes in the county of Down, against the report of the National Education Board, and praying that it might not be allowed to be acted upon. The Duke of SUTHERLAND presented a petition from the Highlands of Scotland, praying that a Professorship of Gaelic might be instituted in the Aberdeen University ; also several in favour of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and for the abolition of negro apprenticeship. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY gave notice that if it ware con. veniont to the Noble Viscount( Melbourne), he would appoint Monday, 4th June, for a discussion on the affairs of Spain. He would also present on Monday next, a petition numerously signed by London tradesmen, praying for a Postponement of the Coronation. SYSTEM OF NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. The Marquis of DO WNSHIRE presented petitions in favour of a modification of the national system of education in Ireland, from va rious parishes in the counties of Down, Cavan, and Antrim, and also from the diocese of Raphoe. The E;irl of, ROUEN presented petitions against the system from Kiimote, in the county of Down ; from Coleraine, the Protestants of the town of Raphoe, from a parish in Armagh,and other places. The Bishop of LONDON presented a similar petition from the Protestant inhabitants of Cogher, and another town. The Bishop of EXETER said he had a great many petitions on the same subject ; but he wtmidmercly read the names of the places whence they come. Having done this the petitions were laid on the table. They came from the Protestant inhabitant: of Limerick, Down, and varous towns in different parts of Ireland. ' The Bishop of EXETER said it would be in the recollection of their Lordships that about two pears ago, he moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire intothe working of the system of edu cation adopted in Ireland, but oil the occasion he was not fortunate enough to induce their Lordships to consent to the motion.--(Heir.) Ott that occasion the speech that he made was subsequently made a subject of comment by her Maje-ty's Commissioners in their third Re port. In that Report some observations wore made respecting which in some degree tended to touch his honour and his character. He then felt it his duty to move for a Committee of Inquiry, and gave notke that at a very early period of the following Session he should bring the subject, as regarded the working of the system of education under the consideration of the House. In the interim between the close of that Session and the beginning of the last, her Majesty's Mi nisters had thought differently upon the subject (and he thanked them for it), for they had been so good as to propose the appointment of a Select Committer to investigate the subject. He would, without fur ther preface, state what the resolutions were which he should submit for their Lordships' approbation. They were these:—" First, that it appears to this House that the system of national education in Ireland has failed to etreet the intention as set, forth in the letter of Mr. Stanley (now Lord Stanley), addressed to the Duke of Leinster, in the month of Octo ber, 1831, as far as the education of the children of Protestants and Roman Catholics are concerned ; secondly, that the working of the sys_ tern has been prejudicial to the interests of, and discouraging to, the Protest:l:us, and tending to encourage the .Roman Catholic religion ; thirdly, that the staterm nts as to the progress made, announced in the fourth Report of the Commis' oilers, do not appear to be adequate to the costs which have been occasioned." Now as r. garded the first resolu tion—viz., the failure of the system, as pointed out in the letter of Mr. Stanley, their Lordships would recollect that one great object of it was the unding Protestant and Catholic children in the same schools. But besides this obj.ct, there was another, which was, that by unit ing religious instruction in this way, it would operate to re move jealousy, it was insisted, with respect to the first point the union of children of Protestants and Catholics in instruc tion he apprehended that no one would now say, after the expeeien e obtained. 1114 it had succeeded even in a small degree, It appeared that Mr. Carlisle had set forth an account of some schcols in in 0.. e part of the country to this effect. In 1816, out of 1,219 schools, the result was this, that in all those schools there were 15,163 Protes. tants, whilst the number of Catholic children was 90,595, making about one Protestant to six Crtholics. This inequality of the number of Protestant and Catholic children in those schools pervaded the Re port, even the seminaries which were considered the best specimens of the , hoots of national education ; rise Catholics being, in most places, two_thirds of the scholars, until, increasing by degrees, they were found to amount in Donegal, to the number of 621) Catholics to two Protestants. From all that he had learned, it appeared that the charge of furnishing the means of scriptural education must fall, and had so far en upon the clergy of the Established Church. He need hardly r,mark that the great leading object of the plan of Lord Stanley was, as he confessed, to create a union of the children of different re:igi .us persuasion in the pursuit of sound learning and re ligious instruction, and that this leading object had entirely failed --(Cries of hear, hear, hear.) A second object avowed was the separate instruction of Protestant arid Catholic children at different times by spiritual teachers of their separate persuasions. Of the suc cess of this second plan nothing could be known as respected the cl - tildren of Catholic parents. But it was curious to hear the account given of the progress of the Protestant put of these children in receiving se_ paste scriptural education ; Mr. 'Woodward, of the Model School, said that though their. were in the district 3,500 Protestant children, the instructors found that they could not, but with the greatest difficulty, obtain the attendance of any number of the children, who were withheld by the schoolmasters on vat ions pretexts from attending ; that hardly an hour a week was thus employed in rec: lying separate instruction ; that the scholars would not be induced to get off their tasks by heart, anti were not amenable to any control. The result of the ,xperiment respscted the teachers was quite disheartening.—(Hear.) The Roman Catholic clergy generally, with Dr. M`Hale at their head, had denounced the admission of scripture! extracts into these schools ; Dr. M`Hale in terdicting the practice as exposing the true faith to a pestilent conta gion. In respect to the dr awing up of these extracts, he regretted to be obliged to say that in the concessions made to the construction put on different texts of Scriptiare, to meet the doctrine of the Romish Church, great blame attached itself to the conduct of the Commissioners in the preparation of these extracts, more particularly in respect to the earliest of the prophecies relating to the coming of the Redeemer, which prediction is in Genesis, chap. 3—namely, " the reed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head." By a note, the sense was in the extract con formed to the prejudices of the Catholics in favour of the intervention of the Virgin hetween God arid his creatures, and admitted to be the same as that given in the Douay edition of the Bible. With respect to the sacrifice of the mass, a most important point, and the double sacri fice which Christ math of himself in the eucharist, and in the bloody sa crifice on the cross, a similar concession to Catholic doctrine had, he regretted to say, been admitted into the volume of sacred extract-. He would now refer to a most singular circumstance of oppression and neglect in the case of Mr. O'Croly—a man universally respected by all sects. This gentleman had shown himself rather a reformer than a mem ber of the Church of Eng'and ; having scarcely gone beyond what Dr. Doyle had recommended—namely, an approach to the Church of England. He had been suspended by his Bishop, and was living privately in his parish. The priest who was appointed to su persede him thought proper to use the national school-room for several Sundays, the chapel of the place being out of repair. Its this room the newly-appointed priest, Mr. James Daly, denounced Mr. O'Croly before the congregation. Mr. O'Croly wrote a letter to the Board, and an answer was ultimately returned, promising that the matter in dispute should be taken under their investigation. In the course of a month he was informed that an investigation of this kind had been made, which was satisfactory to the Board; but it was done without giving any opportunity to Mr. O*Ctoly to confront this same Roman Catholic priest, who contented himself with denying the facts alleged. A minute of the Board, bearing date 14th January 1636, pre. sent the Duke of I.einster, Dr. Murray, and others, declared that the Rev. Mr. Daly's explanation, ts a certain extent, was satisfactory to the Board, but that he was warned against any infringement of the Board's rulss ; so that the Board threw out of their consideration the outrage which had been perpetrated on Mr. O'Croly, who could not continue to reside in the place where he was without danger to his life, and he was actually obliged to have recourse to the mili:ary station at Ballincollig fur protectiOn, from whence he addressed the Commissioners, stating his regret that he had no opportunity of meeting Mr. Daly, whose statements he had been prepared to reply to. The Right Rev. Prelate here read an extract from a work of Mr.Carlisls,a resident Commissioner, ar to the gene_ ral character of the Roman Catholic priesthood. Ile stated that recent events hail proved that a large proportion r f them were deeply tinged with infidel principles—rejecting the Scriptures, as the word of God, with sovereign contempt, and denouncing the Bible as a mischievous book. He now came to the second resolution, which he proposed to the effect that the present system of education in Ireland tended to the disarrangement of Protestantism in Ireland. The other resolution he should propose declared that the modifications made in the fourth report of the Board did not appear to remedy the evils which had been admitted. He thought the modifications made were of such a nature, that he was net surprised that almost every Protestant body in Ireland concurred its condemning the system, as aggravating the evils of the former system. 'fire complaint which had been made was, not that the Bible was not read, but that the Bible was placed in these schools on a par with the Roman Catholic catechism. It was disgraceful to a Christian country if the word of God were neglected. When Doctor Wiseman was asked the reason why the Bible was. not put into the hands of children ; he said that he did not think that the reason was a supposed want of understanding on the part of the children, but that the Catholic faith did not require that per sonal knowledge of the Bible that the Protestant faith demanded. The evidence of the Dean of Armagh and others proved the great eagerness which the people of Ireland had for biblical instruction ; but he would not take the authority of Protestants only, but would rely upon that of the Irish Society, which had conferred such essential benefits on the people of Ireland. The Right Rev. Prelate here quoted a passage, in support of the view of the case, from the address of the Roman Catholic teachers to the Irish Society, in which it was declared that the Irish peasantry were most anxious for scriptural knowledge for themselves and for their children. The Right Rev. Prelate concluded by moving the resolutions. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE must complain of the period at which the Right Rev. Prelate brought this subject forward. Passing over se large a portion of the session, when their Lordship's time was unoccupied, the Right Rev. Prelate now chose a time when neither the chiefecclesiastical nor the chief lay Commissioner could have been pre sent. The system was said not to have succeeded, but, in his opinion, it had succeeded to an extent greater than even the most sanguine persons could have anticipated in so short a space of time, though it had not yet been able to do all that could be wished. The object was not only to communicate education to the mass of the people of Ireland, who were Catholics, but that the minority sho:ld be so educated with them, as to eradicate that fatal estrangement between castes which had for centuries been the bane of Ireland. These schools had now between 166,000 and 170,000 pupils, although only 37,000 children had been educated by the Kildare-street Society, notwithstand ing all their exertions, as appeared by the report of 18:14. There was a progressive increase of pupils under the new system of education in all the four provinces, and the Right Rev Prelate would not himself deny but that this advantage, at least, had been gained—that this great num ber of pupils obtained, at all tvents, a good Catholic education. He had a return, from which it appeared that the relative number of Protestants and Catholics in Ulster at those schools stood thus :—he took the ec clesiastical province of Armagh, and found that the number of the Pro testant population was 1,171,618, and of the Catholic 1,955,1.3. The number ofchildren :n the schools was 17,000 Protestants and 28,000 Catholics, being set, little short of the number of Protestants in pro portion to the population. It was wrong, therefore, to ray that the Pro. testants did not reap benefit from this system, and they would have reaped more still if so many of the Protestant clergy had not withheld their support, and, indeed, given to it their active opposition. erever they had lent their aid the schools were placed on a proper footing. No abuses had occurred, and the best benefits were conferred on both classes of the children and on the people. The Noble Marquis here quoted passages from the reports of the Rev. 'Mr. Staples, a Protes tant clergyman in the north of Ireland, and from that also of the Rev. Mr. Hastings, to show that the number of Protestant children attending the schools was nearly in proportion to that of the Catholics, in refer. rence to the respective amounts of population. In one instance all the Protestant inhabitants of the district had memorialised to have a school placed under the control of the National School. This proved that the system had at least the confidence of this portion of the Protestants of Ireland—(Hear.) The landlord of the district, however, said that he never would give Pis consent to it. The Noble Marquis next referred to various other extracts, for the purpose of showing that the children of Roman Catholics andofPresbyterians were educated together in perfect concert, in several parts of the north of Ireland. In the course of his farther observations the Noble Marquis went on to observe that Lady Osborne, who had very extensive possessions in the county of Tipperary, and who had ioterested herself in the education of the children of her tecants for the last sixteen years, had cordially supported the national system of education, though she was known to entertain strong preju. dices against the doctrines of the Church of Rome. The Noble Mar quis next proceeded to comment on the polemical points urged by the Right Rev. Prelate, and maintained that there was nothing whatever in them which should induce their Lordships to discountenance the prin tilde oft (locating the children of Protestants and of Roman Catholics under the same roof. The Noble Marquis then went on to vindicate the conduct of the officers employed under the Board of Commissioners, and said that though trifling irregularities might have hitherto occurred, measures had been adopted by which in future they would be avoided. but he would say that if the object of certain parties was to get up a shop of grievances here, no good could be derived from the system. The Duke of WELLINGTON had always thought that no good could result from a joint system of education In Ireland, considerin g the agitated state o f th a t country, even since 1793. It could not be denied that the national system of education had failed, and the No. ble Marquis had given no answer to the asguments of the Right Rev. Prelate. It ought to be borne in mind that in the schools in the North of Ireland Protestant children formed the majority, and in those of the South of Ireland Roman Catholic children formed the majority. Under the present system the Clergy had no power of going into the schools in Ireland, and authoritatively teaching the sacred Scriptures in them. The Noble Marquis had given no answer to the argument of the Right Reverend Prelate, that under the present system the d oc ., trines of the Church of England were compromised, and that too with the sanction of a most Reverend Prelate in Ireland. His main objection to the fourth report was, that it exhibited the pretence of reading the Scriptures, whereas, in fact, the system precluded the possibility of thetr being read. But he wished to guard himself against any charge of in. consistency, for though he had agreed to"eotes of money far carrying this system into execution, yet he had done no more than his duty ; for the system once established could not be changed with every change of administration. The Noble Duke, in conclusion, said that however much he deprecated the abuses of the sys•em, yet, for the reasons be had just given, he could not support the re. solution, and would, there:bre, move, as an amendment, that their Lordships proceed to the order of the day.—( Hear, hear, hear.) The Bishop of DERRY was glad that his Hight Rev. Friend, if he would allow him to call him sn, had abstained from attacking the Board, because he thought the interests of religion would be best pro moted by abstaining from ae;imonious reflections and angry aspersions which had been indulged in on other occasions. He had the happiness and the honour to be acquainted with the Noble Duke at the head of the Board, and with respect to these attacks, he would say to him, " My Lord, becomposed, your character is a shield which will protect you from all calumnies," and to his most reverend and absent friend, who had also been attacked, he would say, " Be not disturbed, you have the highest of all human rewards—the approbation of your own heart, and the consciousness of having discharged the duties of your reli. gion to the best possible effect by promoting the glory of God, by the dif. fusion of benevolence and peace upon earth." The Bishop of NORWICH had been deeply grieved, and bad inex pressibly suffered, not in anger but in sorrow, at the harsh expressions and the harsh measure, dealt out by the Right Rev. Prelate, who had in troduced this question, to those who had the misfortune to differ with him. He trusted there were many who were equally anxious with that Right Rev. Prelate to promote Christianity in Ireland, and who consi dered the system as a beneficial mode of introducing the blessings of sound and true religion. The Right Rev. Prelate rr.ibht, therefore, have spared denouncing them in the way he had done, as almost unworthy of the the situation which they held in Church—(" No," from the Bishop of Exeter.) Ile spake in sorrow, not in anger. He regretted that he hat heard the expressions which had fallen from the Right Rev. Prelate who had also denounced the Board. Now front what he (the Bishop of Norwich) knew of the 111..mbers of thatitoard, he thought that from the whole circle of society it would be difficult to pr, cure men better cal culated for the circumstances in which they were placed, a nd for the duties which they had to perform. He was sorry t o b e o bli ge d to say he did not think the Right Reverend Prelate had not been careful to bring the whole question forward with that openness and can dour which would have become the occasion, for he held in his hand a circular, addr. ssed by the Right Rev. Prelate to some of the clergy of the diocese of Derry, requesting information on the subject of the sys tem of national education in Ireland--not, let it be observed, with refer ence to its general effects, but " especially any instances of abuses in the system, and of perversions of it to purposes of party." — (Cheers.) Surely it would have been fairer and more candid to have called fur all the in formation—the good and the bad—that they might be balanced and compared together.—(Cheers.) Now with respect to the representations made on this subject, their Lordships had heard touch of the parish of Roundstone. The principal of the school in that parish, whose name was O'Flaherty, wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Dublin, and he be. tiered to the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, complaining of having been distnissed from his situation by the priest, and he for warded a memorial for his restoration, signed by the Protestants and Catholics, and by Patrick King, Esq , of Annievate, the Chairman of the meeting. He begged their Lordships to bear in mind Patrick King, Esq., of Annievate, the Chairman of the meeting. An inquiry was instituted, and, after much cross-examination, Mr. O'Flaherty was compelled to acknowledge that most of the names were put to the memorial by himself and Patrick Xing, Esq., of Annievate, the Chairman of the meeting. The question was then asked, who was Patrick King, Esq., of Annievate, Chairman of the meeting, and Mr. O'Flaherty, being much pressed upon this point, also, at length, unwillingly confessed that Partick King, Esq., of Annievate, Chairman of the meeting, was absent without leave, so far as he was concerned, as a public criminal, by the verdict of a jury, performing penance• on the tread_wheel of the goal.—(Laughter.) Escar School had also been attacked, on the ground that mass was celebrated in it on an altar, in the presence of the children. Now, the fact was, that before the national system of education was introduced, the friars in that neighbourhood had been collecting money to build a chapel, and when the school came into the hands of the Commissioners, permission was requested to leave the altar in the school until the chapel should be finished, but a red curtain was placed before the altar, and mass was not performed iii the presence of the children ; nor was all gold that glittered in the petitions on the table. With regard to one of them, the rector of the parish of Dean Burgh declared that it was a hole-and-corner petition, got up by no one knew whom ; and one man said he had signed it because he had heard there was a Conservative Board of Lords sitting at Dublin, who were ready t o pay the passage money of every man who might choose to go t o America, and that one Noble Lord, he believed now before him, had the charge and bad possession of the money.— (Loud laughter.) He said, therefore, that the petitions must not be taken without some caution as the fair and candid expression of the opinions of those who understood what they were signing. Many attacks had been made upon the un. fortunate books which he held in his hand; unfortunate, because never had books been so grievously misrepresented and so unfairly treated. It was said they were substitutes for the Scriptures. The compilers of them never so intended them; they intended them as leading steps to wards the Scriptures, and, in an uneducated community to give, in the words of the apostle, " milk to babes." It was said that they were filled with sentences constructed and perverted to suit the Catholic faith. Now, a decided enemy of the national system r f education in Ireland, after vituperating it in the strongest manner, said he must do the editor the justice to admit that, so far as he had examined, there was no pas. sage which appeared to have been introduced or omitted under the influence of any particular views of Christianity or religion, and that the books might be used with great benefit for the instruction of Ca. tholic children. He hoped their Lordships would not suffer the evening to pass without opposing these resolutions and doing their best to sup_ port aid advocate that religion which, he was convinced, was b. st calcu_ lated for a Catholic population. Let them remember that see could not do all we would; let is, therefore, do what we could. If we could not compel the Catholics to read the Bible, let us show by our conciliatory spirit, by our charity, by oar Protestant Christianity, that we had read that Bible, and that we practised its precepts, and upon those data, and those solely, with the Bible in our hands, let us stretch forth the right hand of fellowship to the Catholics. We complained that the Catholics , were ignorant—that they were barbarians ; it had been represented that they were not to be believed on their oath. Perhaps the lower:orders might be liable to some of these strictures, but whose fault was it ? For 600 years we had kept them in a state of ignorance. If then they had kept them ignorant for so long a period, but had now given them civil liberty, now let their Lordships extend to thaw education, and thus pave the way for religious instruction; but it must not be forced too strongly on the prejudices of the people. Their Lordships had heard much of the mutilation of the Holy Scriptures ; but he must say, muti late as much as could be done even the small book which he held in his hand, still like the Sibyl leaves, there would be much that was valuable that would remain; he would take the words " Glory to God, and peace and goodwill to all mankind."— (Cheers.) Let that text go forth, an alien and a wanderer in Ireland, and depend upon that, in con junction with a system of education, it would soon cease to be a wan derer, for it would find a home and resting place in every cabin iii I reland.-- (C heers.) The Earl of WINCHILSEA could say that it was the first duty of the Legislature of a Protestant Christian country not to pro_ mote a system of national education, not founded on the whole Word of God; and it was a perfect fallacy to suppose that under any general system of education their Lordships could con ciliate the affections of both Protestants and Catholics.—(Hear.) It was impossible to reconcle a general principle to the views of both churches. tie could take upon himself to assert that the pre sent system was not in accordancewith the feelings of the Protestants of Ireland—it was not in accordance with religious truth, as brought into this country at the Refor:natiesn, and the Protestants of England were decidedly opposed to it. Nothing could beso dangerous or so degrading to a Protestant Legislature, as not doing their first duty to the country and to God—namely, to extend that religion which had made the people happy, and the country free. If the Right R everend Prelate stood alone on the motion before their Lordships he (Lo r d Wi nch i lsea) woul d stand by him.—(Cheers and great laughter.) The Earl of WICKLOW was anxious to trouble their Lordships with a very few observations. He could not vote for the two first resolu. tions of the Right Reverend Prelate, because they went to imply a cen sure on the Commissioners, and, through them, on tie system. He had strenuously opposed the system on its first introduction, because at that time the Kildare-street Society was working we ll ; and it was matter of great regret to hint that their Lordships were induced to aban don the one and adopt the other. And, strongly as he had objected to the introduction of the present system at the time, yet he should as strongly object mow to the abandonment of it, for the purpose of esta. blishing another. He was bound to say that he considered the plan, with certain modifications, might be brought to work beneficially and well ; and he thought great credit was due to the Commissioners for the mod'. fications already made. The increase in the number of Inspectors, which the Commissioners had directed, was a g re at improvement in the system. -But what he conceived was of still g r eater importanc e was, into the the schools alteration a s a madepart o f joint with reg education. ard to The g introductionst strong of theob Scriptures o bjection which Pro_ testants had felt to the system was , becausereli g i ous instruction had been excluded from the schools; whi le such was the c ase, it was utterly im possible that the Protestant :i lergy could sanction o r g i ve their support to the trusted system. the But Commissioners therem ission was er w a s greatcul evil yet to be r emedied, and which he d carry into effect. Ile allud e d t o th e pastors of the schools, who were generally Roman Catholic priests, hav ing the power to introduce catechisms, or any other religious books they pleased. This was very objectionable, and if the Commissioners desired to make the system work well, they would modify the existing regula tions, and di, away with this most objectionable principle. The Bishop of LONDON was prepared, without hesitation, to vote for the resolutions of his Right Rev. Friend. From the first he had opposed the present system of national education for Ireland, and he should still continue to do so, considering, as he did, that it was based on a principle fundamentally vicious. If it were tried for a century, it would never do good, and he considered it the imperative duty of the Government of a Christian co untr y , where th e Church was connect e d with the State, to uphold Christ ia n truth i r any system of e d ucat i on to beafopt of twodfort ioherepiejogplen; and any national sy s te m , w h ere there were members ~ whose instruction was t o b e provided for, ought to be in conformity with the truths taught by the Established Church. Any other system, from tviginning to end, was bad. No compromise could take place with respect to religious truth ; yet that compromise was made under the existing system. With regard to the Commission he wished to speak with all possible respect. One of the lead; mg members of it was a Right Rev. Prelate, with whom he was acquainted rie was a man of the most undoubted probity and honour, and he. was satisfied if that Right Rev. Prelate considered that the eli's ct of the principle would be to injure the Protestant Church, he would at once indignantly send in his resignation. On these grounds he must decline having it supposed he cast any censure on the Commission, yet nothing that he (the Bishop of London) could say would be suffi ciently strong to express his objection to the principle upon which the Commission was founded. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said the details brought forward by the Right Rev. Prelate (the Bishop of Exeter) affected the Commis. sioncrs more than the system ; they referred to particular management in particular schools; they did not apply to the system itself, but to par. ticular schools formed under the authority of the system. He denied that the system was a failu• e. Let their Lordships recollect the short time it had been established ; let them recollect the great excitement which had prevailed; not only in Ireland, bat in England also, since that period, and the events consequent upon that excitement ; then let them look to the number of schools which had been established, and then he would ask whether any man would say that this system, up to the present moment, had fairly been tried ? Their Lordships had the Ltd before them in the Report that no less a number than 166,9:15 children were LA present educated under the system. He thought the Commissioners, by the regulations they had made, had amelio_ rat. d the management of those schools, and had done their utmost to carry out the system in the spirit in which the Legislature had thought fit to establish it. The Earl of RODEN considered the system as inconsistent with the interests of a great Protestant country ; because, in the formation of any new system of national education, a Christian Legislature was bound to reject any proposition which did not allow the Scriptures, with out note or comment, to be the ground and basis of such system. lie begged to assure the Noble Marquis who had spoken last, that, so far from the children not attending the Kildare-street Society's schools, when this new system was introduced, the fact was they were day by day increasing. He very much regretted to hear the Noble Marquis (Lans downe) say that there was a combination on the part of the Protestant Clergy against this system of national education. No doubt they did combine, but for what purpose ? Why, to support anti uphold, with the strongest feelings of determination, the tenets of their own religion, and that of their country. Lord Viscount MELBOURNE said, although the Right Rev. Prelate had omitted to move the fourth resolution, he had certainly made a speech very strongly in support of it, so much so, indeed, that he seemed to have delivered the speech prepared before he resolved not to move that fourth resolution. With respect to the question itself, he felt some ditliculy in thinking that conscientious scruples alone ac tuated those who came forward to attack these schools. He could not help feAing that political feeling was mixed up largely in it. The system now impugned was brought forward by a Noble Friend of his (Lord Stanley) in 1831, immediately atter that expression of popu lar opinion which so completely overthrew that party, which was then an aai.reform party ; but which now called itself Conse, vative—which turnedthem upside down, and left them in a prostrate and unhealthy position, from which they imagined that the only mode to raise them selves was by appea'ing to the religious feelings of the cxrununi , y, and excite a strong party feeling by that means. That was the system upon which they had from that time forward continued to act. It was said that the effect of this system was to encourage Ronian Catholics and to dis courage Protestantism. He (Lord Melbourne) was sorry to say that there were too many who seemed to think that the mere education of Roman Catholic children was an encouragement to Catholicism. Such at least seemed to ye the opinion of the metropolitan Bishop, of Mr. G wlburn, and Dr. Everett. Another circumstance which tended to excite the very strong feeling now existing was, that the opponents of this system had been beaten. If they had been beaten it was their own fault for having engaged in an unwise and unreasonable battle. lie hoped those Noble Lords who were about to vote for these resolutions would consider the situation in which they placed themselves by so doing. It seemed to him that they had much better continue the pre sent system than make a grant for the education of Roman Catholics, over the administration of which they would have no control. He should support themotion of the Noble Duke. Lord DE VESCI would not abandon the hopes he entertained of the result of the present system until a much more full and impartial trial had been given to it. The Bishop of CHICHESTER was understood to express a hope that the conciliatory disposition shown by the Commissioners would soon lead to the introduction of the Bible ungarbled into the schools, and thus remove the strong objection entertained to the measure by the Irish clergy. The Bishop of EXETER, in reply, had been accused of exhibiting good tactics in postponing his motion to the present time. The Noble Marquis was the last person who should have made such a charge, as it was entirely owing to his not being able to state what were the intentions of Government that the delay had occurred. The Noble Duke had said that he did not mean to support the motion. He (the Bishop of Exeter) felt indebted to the Noble Duke for his most powerful support—he was pleased to show how every one of the resolutions was fully justified by his statement The Noble Duke had given a support to the motion to night which no other person would have given so effectively, and hardly any other man would have given so ably. The Right Reverend the Bishop of Norwich had risen apparently under some emotion, and had charged him (the Bishop of Exeter) with having positively denounced him and others as unworthy of the seats they held. He could not pos sibly be justified in saying of the sort, and he would advise the Right Reverend Prelate not to be too sensitive of being too unworthy of the situation he held. After a few words from the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, the House divided, when the numb, , rs were— For the Re,olution—Contents Non.contents Majority — 45 Their Lordships then adjourned, at a quarter to one o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 25 The SeeAxeo took the Chair at the usual hour. Mr. Carta?, from the Poor Law Commissioners, appeared at the Bar with certain returns, which were laid on the table. GALWAY TOWN ELECTION. Lord MOUPETH, as Chairman of the Galway Town Election Coin mittee, reported that the Committee had determined that Andrew Henry Lynch, Esq., was duly elected, and that neither the petition nor the op_ position thereto were frivolous or vexatious. HULL ELECTION. Mr. 0. GORE moved, that the minutes of evidence taken before the Hull Election Committee be printed, for the purpose of founding a mo tion thereupon. After a few words from Sr H. HARDINGE, the motion was agreed to. The Wadesley Langset and Sheffield Road Bill and the Deurles turalization Bill were read a third time and passed. Lord F. EGERTON brought up the report of the Committee on the Grand Junction Railway Bill. Mr. AG LIONBY brought up the report of the Committee respecting the building of the Royal Exchange. The Sheriffs of London appeared at the bar, with a petition from the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London.—Laid on the table. DEVIZES ELECTION. _ Lord EASTNOR, Chairman of the Devizes Election Committee, ap. peared at the Bar and reported that the Committee had decided that J. W. Deans Dundas was not duly elezted to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Devizes, and that George Heneage Walker Heiteage, Esq., was duly elected and ought to have been returned, and that the Com mittee had altered the 101 l by striking off the names of several persons who had voted at the last election. Mr. CURRY presented a petition from certain persons employed in the linen manufacture, Armagh, praying that the Act for the protection of such manufacturers, which expired during the present Session, might be renewed. TITHES. Sergeant JACKSON presented a petition from the Clergy of the dio cese of Elphin, against the proposed system for the regulation of tithes in Ireland. Also, a petition to the same effect from the Clergy of the diocese of Lim?rick, and against the present system of national educa tion in Ireland. • Mr. GORDON presented a petition from the congregation of a Dis senting Chapel in Windmill-street, praying for a reduction of postage. Mr. F. FRENCH presented a petition from students of medicine and surgery, in King's County, in favour of the Education clauses of the Mc - dical Charities (Ireland) Bill, and against some other of the clauses. Mr. HARVEY presented a petition from the bookbinders of London against the Law of Copyright Bill. Also a petition from South Shields for the immediate abolition of Negro apprenticeship. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the Churchwardens of Islington in favour of the Bill for extending Church accommodation. Mr. HALL presented a petition from an individual, named John Williams, for the immediate Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship. POOR LAWS. Mr. D. W. HARVEY begged to ask the Honourable Chairman of the Poor Law Committee when it was likely that the parties connected with the metropolitan districts would have an opportunity of being examined. The parish of St. George, Southwark road, had taken a very active part in watching the operation of the measure, and had entrusted to him (slr. Harvey) a petition, complain ing of the operation of certain of its enactments. lie would be glad to know from the Hon. Member whether it was likely that the parties m question would be examined during the present session ? Mr. FAZ AKERLY, who spOke in a very low tone of voice, was understood to say that the Committee was most anxious to afford all parties an opportunity of tendering evidence as to the operation of the Act, but he could not fix any precise period when it was probable they would be examined. In answer to a question from Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, Mr. FA zAKERLY said it was the intention of the Committee to report generally on the operation of the law during the present session, but he found the enquiry would be a very protracted one. Sir EA It DLEY LMO . I! moved for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the line of the Manchester and Derby . Railway.—Agreed to. The Bill was then brought in and read a first time. Mr. BAINES presented a petition from Coldstream, in favour of negro emancipation. BRITISH GUIANA Mr. E. TENNENT begged to ask the Noble Lord, the Secretary at War, whether her Majesty's Government had received ally official in formation relative to the recent military occupation of a large portio❑ of the Brazilian territory and British Guiana by the French troops, aria. jog out of the non.settlement of a question of boundaries ? Lord PALMERSTON s id her Majesty's Government had not re ceived any information on the subject. He understood, however. that some movement had taken place among the French troops in British Guiana, connected with a dispute which had existed for some time. He had directed enquiry to be made into the matter, but the time had not yet expired when an answer might be expected. SEIZURE OF THE VIXEN. Sir STRATFORD CANNING had a petition to present re. lative to the capture of a vessel, taken on the north east coast of the Black Sea some months ago.—(Hear, hear.) The petition was signed by the owners of the vessel and the merchants who chartered her--they complained that they had suffered injury from the irregular proceedings that had taken place relative to the seizure, and also owing to the Government not having interfered in their behalf at the time the capture took place. As it was his intention to found a motion upon the subject, he would now merely move that the petition be printed with the votes, and he would call the attention of the House to the subject on the 7th of June next. Lord PALMERSTON said the Hon. Baronet had had the courtesy to shew him the petition before he had presented it, and he would just observe, that there was one allegation in it which was totally and entirely untrue. It was stated that the expedition had been sane. tinned by him (Lord Palmerston) in his official capacity, and that certainly was not the case.--(Hear.) REDUCTION OF POSTAGE. Mr. WALLACE presented a large number of petitions from various places in Scotland, praying for a reduction of the rates of postage. NEGRO EMANCIPATION. Lord J. RUSSELL rose for the purpose of asking the Honourable Baronet the Member for Warwickshire when he would be prepared to give notice of his intention to bring in a Bill in conformity with the resolution passed by the House the other night, and he would now state, that if the lion. Baronet were prepared to do so, he should propose to the House that Monday next be taken for that purpose. Sir E. WILMOT had come down to the House for the express pur pose of answering the question of the Noble Lord. He deeply felt the justice and propriety of giving the earliest possible notice of his intention, and he should always bow to the wishes of the House in that respct. in consequence of the Noble Lord having expressed himself decidedly opposed to any measure which he might introduce to carry that motion into effect, and in consequence of his having thus given one of the strongest arguments that their agitation had in a great measure prevented the voluntary manumission of the slaves, not only by private persons, but by the Legislature, he would state that it was not his intention to bring in any Bill, thinking that the motion would be stronger and snore powerful, and, in fact, induce them to do that voluntarily which the Bill would compel them to do—he should therefore bring in no Bill, reserving to himself the right at any other time to take whatever steps appeared advisable; and as the Noble Lord had intimated that he would be prepared to state what the Governnkent meant to do, he would now call upon the Noble Lord to state what the intentions of the Government were to the House. Lord JOHN RUSSELL—If the Hon. Baronet had stated to the House that he intended to bring in a Bill in pursuance of the resolution, I should have asked him to name the earliest day for that purpose ; and as I have already declared, the Govern ment would strenuously have opposed the introduction of that Bill. If the Hon. Baronet had declared he was ready to abandon all intentioli of carrying out that resolution, or of pressing it to any fur ther consequences, I should have stated that the Government would have taken the responsibility on themselves of carrying - into effect the existing law, and of declaring in the Colonies, as it would have been their bounden duty to do, that the existing law remained in entire force as to all its consequences—whether it were to the sanction which it gave to the proceeding, or whether it were to the punishment of those persons acting in violation of it. But the Hon. Baronet having taken neither of these courses, but having declared he does not at present intend to take any measure in consequence of that resolution, but reserves to himself the right of taking any measure hereafter, it is incumbent oti us to ask this House's opinion whether or not it is prepared to agree to the tits: or second decision of the House ?—(Cries of " Hear") —whether they are content with the law as it at present stands, or whether they mean to alter that law ?--(Hear, hear.) If they are content with the law as it :it present stands, that law must be exe. cuted. If that law is to be altered, that alteration must be carried into effect in the proper way, and that law, as altered, atirfinistered. With these opinions, I ant ready to state, either on Monday or Tuesday, as it shall he thought best ; and my lion. Friend near me, the Under Secretary for the Colonies, will propose resolutions of which I will now state the ge neral effect to the House, and will afterwards be at liberty to alter any particular words which it may be deemed expedient to alter—my Hon. Friend will propose, in the first place, that the resolution proposed by the Honourable Member for Yorkshire (Sir G. Strickland) and the decision of the House on that occasion shall lie read, and likewise the resolution of the Hon. Baronet opposite (Sir E. Wilmot). Then he will propose, in order to prevent the injurious consequences which may follow from the intentions of Parliament being left in doubt, and in order to maintain the peace and welfare of their colonies, that it is necessary to declare that in the opinion of this House it is not advisdble to adopt any pro ceedings for the purpose of giving effect to the resolution of May 22; and, secondly, that this House declares its (*Mimi that every measure which can tend to secure the negro population the privileges secured to (hem under the Act for the abolition of slavery ought to be adopted; and, further, that the most anxious attention of this House shall be directed to strengthen the condition of the negro population when the expiration of the term of apprenticeship shall have entitled them to the full enjoyment of freedom.—(Hear, hear.) I think myself it will be better that we should take Monday for the consideration of this subject, but I hope in that case the House will not object to my pro. posing that we should sit on the Tuesday (the 29th day of May), because I think it extremely desirable that we should not lose a day.—(Hear.) %Ir. IRVING trusted the Noble Lord would bring the matter on the first thing on Monday, and not allow any other subject to take pre- Lord J. RUSSELL said—l shall now move the entry on the votes of the 29th and 30th of 11arch and the 2'2d of Niay ha now read, and I shall then propose that they be taken into consideration on Monday, in order that the House may be aware of the intention to propose theca resolutions. The entries on the votes were accordingly read, in order to be taken into consideration on Monday next. KING CHARLES' DAY. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the Chaplain do preach be, fore the House on the 29th of May.— Agreed to. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then moved that the House at its rising do adjourn till Monday.—Agreed to. ROXBURGH ELECTION.—(ADJOURNED DEBATE.) . . . On the Order of the Day being read for resuming the adjourned debate on Sir James Graham's motion for disqualifying Hawick, as a polling place, Mr. HORSMAN, and Mr. G. W. HOPE, rose together, and cell Honourable Gentlemen continued standing for some minutes, each apparently determined not to give way. At length, after cries of " Chair, Chair", The SPEAKER said it was a question on which the House itself must decide. The Hon. Member for Cockermouth (Mr. Horsman), had made a motion last night for the adjournment of this debate, and it was for the House to say whether he should resume it. Mr. HORSMAN wished merely to state the position in which he was placed. He bad commenced his speech last night amid the inter. ruption of the House. (Loud cries of " Order," " Chair," and much confusion.) Mr. WARBURTON moved that Mr. Horsman be heart. About a dozen Members rose to second the motion. After a few words from Lord J. Russell and Mr. Wynn, Mr. HORSMA N proceeded to address the House. He contended that the Right Hon. Baronet ha I made out no case. Even takina it upon the evidence laid by the Right Hon. Baronet before the House, there was no ground for the. motion. There were, he admitted iso. fated cases of assault, but they were fully justified by the provocation that had been received. The Hon. Member then read a letter from a person named Oliver, who, it bad been stated, had suffered much per sonal injury —whose case, in fact, had been set forth as one of the worst, and yet that person, in the letter alluded to, stated that he had only re ceived a few slight bruises —(Hear.) As for the disturbance itself it was not to be wondered at, for he contended that great provocation had been given by the constant presence of a military force, and by the cir cumstance of placing the polling-booth at the door of the head.quarters of the opposing party; thus keeping before the people's eyes a subject of great and constant irritation. The Hon. Member then read several extracts from the evidence, showing that those persons whose de positions stated their having received personal injury and attack, had in no case been seriously injured, and that it was neverthe less upon these slight circumstances that the Sheriff had been called upon to close the polling booth, and to institute proceedings upon which the opposing parties might afterwards found a petit ion to that House. The Hon. Membeiproceeded to refer to the evidence of the Rev Mr. Barton, who he contended was upon his own showing a violent partisan. He thought that there was nothing to justify the Right Hon. Baronet in seeking for so extraordinary a remedy with respect to this case. The Right Hon. Baronet himself had in former days been an advocate for the utmost freedom of election, and in those days more heads had been broken at one election than in the entire of Scotland since its first en franchisement. In conclusion he earnestly called upon the House not to consent to apply so extraordinary and unprecedented a remedy in a case where there had been no extraordinary abuse. Mr. G. HOPE ►aid the Hon. Member had referred to the evidence, with the view of charging the Hon. Baronet with having unfairly se lected parts of the evidence which he had referred to, in the speech with which he opened the debate, but this charge came with an ill grace from the Honourable Member, for he (Mr. Hope) would be able to show that the llonote able Member hail selected passages from the evidence, which he quoted with a view to suit Isis purpose. The Hon. Member (Mr. Hope) proceed, d to refer to the evidence of witnesses whose evidence had been quoted by Mr. Horsman for the purpose of showing that it had been unfai,ly quoted by that Honourable Member, and then conti nued. The Honourable Member for Cockermouth seemed inclined to deny that there had been any riot. Perhaps there might not have been according to the notions which the Honourable Member bad formed of what constituted a riot; but surely upon that point, atter , reading the evidence, no reasonable man could doubt that there was a riot. Why, did the Hon. Member forget the case of Mr. Pardou, who was generally supposed to have died of the treatment he received on that occasion ? Was there not, amongst many others, the case of Lord John Scott, who had a bull-dog set upon him, and the excuse for that frightful outrage was that some of the people had been assaulted by his Lordship's servant, ass allegation which was posi. tively denied. The Hon. Member for Roxburgh had stated that there was no riot. Why, was that the opinion of the Judge who tried the case, and who stated that " some attempt had been made to represent the riot as trifling, but no eloquence or ingenuity could sustain that view of the case."—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Cockermouth had condemned the conduct of the magistrates, and called upon the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Home Department for an expression of his opinion with respect to that conduct, but in his opinion the ma gistrates had taken the only caurse which, as honest men, they could have adopted.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member opposite had contended that the disturbances were confined to some cases of assault. But it appeared that there were 211 constables in attendance, and surely that force would have been able to afford protec tion. The Honourable Member then was placed in this dilemma— either he must admit that there was a necessity for calling in the aid of the military force, or he must admit that the civil force had not honestly performed their duty. The Honourable Member thought he had esta blished a case of misconduct against the county magistrates; but the town magistrates had refused to share the responsibility with the county magistrates, and let them see how the town magistrates had conducted themselves. He would refer to the case of one of the bailies, who said ty one of the snob, " Go home, my good fellow ; there is another day coming, you know." The magistrates refused to interfere for the pro tection of the electors, unless they had previously obtained a written promise from them. Was there ever conduct such as that ? was it not monstrous collusion ?—(Hear, hdar.) Now, the Honourable Member for Cockermouth restei his case on the application for the military. He said that that application had created considerable discontent, and said it was of a nature to justify disorder. He (Mr. Hope) would not trouble the House with a single argument in refutation of this posl tion.—(Hear, hear.) There was one point more in the Hon. Member's speech to which he wished to allude. The Hon. Member stated that the persons who had been assaulted merely went out to make a case; but did nut Mr. Napier say that when Lord John Scott went up he (Mr. Napier) did not think he would return safe out of the hands of the mob ? Was that like making a case ?--(Hear.) There was another very singular ground of provocation which was treated as justifying the riots, that was what was called the partial position of the polling places, they being placed near the Conservative Inn.—(Hear, from the Minis tei ial benches.) Now, was it for Hon. Gentlemen who belonged to the dominant party, who in fact commanded the town, to talk of mipartiality because by any arrangement a possibility of approach was given to the Conservative voters? There was only one point more on which Ise would detain the House, namely, the allusion which an Honourable Mem ber (Captain Elliot) had made to his (Mr. Hope's) own family. It was not his (Mr. Hope's) intention to condemn that family or the riots; riots had often occurred, and might occur again; but he certainly must say, that the surest mode of preveation would be if the great families and persons of influence would take such a tone as would discourage and deter the disorderly. At a dinner given to the Hon. Captain Elliot, at llawick, the toast of the non-electors of Hawick was given, upon which that Hon. Gentleman observed, that "they had heard much of the Hawick riots, but that they were nothing greater than what often took place on such occasions, and that whatever did occur was greatly exaggerated."—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded to eulogise the bailies for the able and impartial manner in which they had performed their duties, and preserved the town from riot. - -(lronical cheers.) The Learned Gentleman proceeded to say that, except a ducking or so, no harm was perpetrated, and that if any of his hearers ever saw an English election, they would be convinced that there was no thing extraordinary in the Hawick riots.—(Hear, hear.) There were other expressions of a similar nature charged to different Members of the Hon. Member's family, but as they were not in the House he would not allude further to them.—(Hear, hear.) He did not make his observations so much with reference to past conduct, as with a view to batter in future. He would say, that if such language as he had quoted should continue to be used by gentlemen who were in fact chiefs in the country, it would be hard to expect that ignorant mobs could be compelled to keep the peace. After one ohserva!ion more he would release the House. From his knowledge of this and similar questions, he could state that the safety of going to polling plaees depended on general report. It had been said that the magistrates could not inter fere for protection until they had proof of the intention to riot, and the sheriff was blamed for proceeding on hearsay evidence, and assuming the possibility of a riot. Now, he could say, of his own knowledge, that the general impression in Scotland was, that these outrages were exceedingly disgraceful, and that without some remedy being provided, no one would in future venture to the polling place. The hoped the Legislature would take the same view and support the motion of the Right Hon. Baronet.—(Cheers.) Captain ELLIOT denied having uttered anything disrespectful of the Duke of Buccleuch. He believed the Lord Lieutenant to be a most popular landlord, and all he wished was to make him more so. He had been asked a question which, with the permission of the House, he would answer. It was asked why his brother (Lord Minto) and himself were absent from the polling place? Lord Minto's reason was, that from his peculiar position, his presence at the election would be subject to misre. presentation—so much for his brother. For hiniself, he was in another Part of the country previous to the election, and while there he found that so many of his voters were being lured away by bribery and other means, that he was afraid to proceed to the polling place. After a few words from Mr. HORSMAN in exolanation, Mr. C. FERGUSSON would proceed to follow one Right Hon. Mem- bet for Pembroke on what he had said concerning the Lord Adsceate. He would also allude to some other extraneous matters. The Right Hon. Member for Pembroke had divided his charges against the Lord Ad vocateinto two beads—first, as to his conduct in the county, and secondly, as C hairman of the Committee. As to the first, it was charged against the Lord Advocate that he w as t o bl ame i n not allowing the agre ement between the sheriff and the magistrates to be carried i nto effec t. This was that the preserv a ti on of the peace should be entr usted to t he magistrates, but that the Sh er iff should have the power of calling. in the military if necessary. The Right Hon. Member also stated that_ Lord Minto and the Lord Ad v o ca t e wer e av erse from calling i n military, but if the House would attend to some documents which 1 1 ° was about to read they would fi n d th a t t h e con d u ct of the Lord Ad vocate in this matter had be en unexcept i ona bl e . [The Rght 1-I°l. I j , Gentleman hose proceeded to r e a d f rom a pamp hl e t, but so r a p t, and in so low a tone, as to he but indistinctly understood. W e ' l l O derstood the purport of his extract to be, that the Lord Advocate d T, ' refusing the calling out of the m ilit ar y h a d ac t e d on a perfect un em. standing with the Magistrates and the Sheriff] Under these circu stances he did not think the Lord Advocate should be blamed for attend ing to the suggestions of the l oca l M ag i s t ra t es. I n the next place, tia Right Hon. Baronet had a tt em pt e d t o s h ow th a t the Lord Advh t e • t l e. had been to blame in accepti ng th e Ch a i rmans hip of the But what were the circumstances under which he had accepted Tnt at Chairmanship ?—(Hear.) The Lord Advocate was a Member of House, and he (Mr. Fergusson) presuMsd emitted to attend a and if the other side of the H ouse h a d as goo d an o pi n ion of him as ".;;e to strike him out when ca ll e d, h e h a d no c h o i ce b u t to be one of Committee. Further, he (Mr. Ferguson) would say that wh en a per son of his talents and statio n was one o f a C omm itt ee his appointment as Chairman was almost inevitable. Th ere w a s n o proof that this Weti ing had anything to do with the election.—(Oh, oh.) Hon Gen tlei t a might cry " Oh, oh," but that w as no argumen t aga inst him, thougn very popular one on the other s id e o f th e H ouse --it s hould not stop 1"i. Lord —(Laughter.) Much stress had bee n l a id on the constancy o f ,„ John Scott, and nn the fact that h e h a d a t l as t been obliged to g way, but there was no proof that L or d J o h n S co tt h a d been at. all intimi dated. Now, with respect to the evidence of M a jor Napier, it was to be observed that he described the crowd as so dense as not to be able: raise their hands against Lord John Scott, e nd yet one of the m 2 ' 1, 0 described as throwing dirt. With respect to those per sons had been described as not having polled it would almost pear as if they had refrained on purpose to give colour to sn ce. a proceeding as the present, or to make a c as e before Si Com mit There was a charge of making a Cabinet Minister and a Peer guilty of ,„, interfering with the freedom of election by entering the town and use; his influence during the time of the poll going on ; and again, h' err , charged with not entering the town for the purpose of using his P soual influence for the Preservation of the peace.— (Ministerial cheers .) What were the words which were used, a nd up on which so much st r_ 3 0,0 was laid. They were these :—" Y ou h ave clone e well to.day— °not again and assist us to.morrow." What was there in this —wa s it the usual language on election occ a si o n s ? 'T was th e regular old endue election says. The whole of the evidence relating to Lord Mintow7: given by one who, though depo s in g t o f ac t s , gave th em on his belie , t a , On the whole, it did not appear to hi m (M r. F erg usson) ease had been made out sufficient to sustain the motion of his Righ t ",, , , Friend. No popular election took place i n E ng l an d i n which ther e. ; not greater excitement and viole n c e th an i n th a t o f R ox burgh. In s° cases not only was these riot but actual murder had been committee Let the House remember the Notti ng h am an d th e W a kefield elec tions ' a , There could be no denying that assaults and personal indignity had h t "'; committed at Hawick, but there had been no homicides.—(Hear, heart"' Why had not a Bill been propos e d it o remove th e p o lling Place f oo Wakefield ? This would have been but equal justice. Sir G. CLERK felt that the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleero who had just concluded was more a justification of the Committ et i t T; an answer to the Right Hon. Baronet who had brought forward motion. For himself, lie would not enter upon that question. 6-4 did not wish to impugn the decision of th e C omm i t t ee, n or either ‘ , 4 the Right Hon. Baronet who open e d th e d e b a t e. H e , howevet , not approve of the discretion of the Committee in rejecting ev idel s ic . „ 6 which, in his opiniorebore uper the c a se w hi c h th ey. h a d t o decide uP° l " ,O testimony which formed the grou n d_ wor k o f th e present mo tion. i t na been argued that wh it occurred b e f ore th e e l ec ti on f orme d no greu w in h q i u e i h ry h ; ad bu i t n th th er e c i r wa n s at ir r t e hin a g m pr o o r si e wc g t e i l: . e e ra t l e t ri h d a e n n t c o y._ loo ( k tie to ar :7 l: :;;, hear.) It had been fully shown that the proceedings at Howi e ',. t e , 3 %! not the consequence of any sudden ebullition of popular feeling. '' - b y evidently a pre-concerted attack, without any grounds of provocati",i the other party. There were no banners displayed, no offence ar e " :and yet they were treat e d b y a cowardly and brutal mob with g°:, brutality and indignity. Th e ev id ence of conspiracy was obvious' eat it because death had not occurred, that a remedy should not be apP": tos How long would this be the case, if the parties were to be aliowe" come into conflict with each other? Surely, then, it would be nativebetter to agree to the moti on o f th e Ri g h t Hon Baronet, than t° ha e d the town open to such co nsequences as must naturally be aPP reh a e f d the - • from the present state of things. Th e affair had been spoken of by mud-bespattered patriots and the mud.b es p a t tere d Whi gs . But u , ° h j a l al civility had been offered, as if none was s h own at t h e r iots Wili"01 been held at Westmin s te r or e l sew h ere. —( Hear, hear. ) But lie,Wever also ask whether such an atrocious, co ld.bl oo d e d cons piracy ha d e nas taken place? The certificate of the Hon. Member for Roxburgh was re' of special pleading, while the fact was that the people would not ve d ° ha d out of the inn. The mildest remedy that could have been Pr.:4 l°e , e been suggested, and the speech of the Right Hon , Baronet did not -° •11 tain one angry word, and the sole object in view ;vas to introduce tliVrgitia to prevent a recurrence of such circumstances, and enable the R el L i b le ad electors to vote in safety.—(The Hon. Baronet then sat down an's cheering, and cries of " Divide.") pre The LORD-ADVOCATE could not address the House on ".° rt oy sent occasion without expressing his thanks for the kindness and c for of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Sir James Graham), and all : been his having brought for war d every poss ibl e charge that co uld h aV ; ion he made.—(Cheers from the Mini s t er i a li s t s. ) S tand i ng i n the s itus- s hould beam it was most necessary that a curious and scrutinizing se sre ,:ii ig ation. ade with respect to his own conduct, and if, upon W ve- - isited he were found to have deserved the remarks made, he shon lw eti ntrY• with a reprimand for not having maintained the peace of th e - she riff On the 25th of July he had addressed a letter to Mr. Oliver, the iv of Roxburgh, who earnestly requested the assistance of the military that reply was that the military sho u ld b e i n rea di ness , but reques ted be they should be kept in the distance, so that if force were necessary tv,„,l used it should not be by violating the constitutional practice with 1'01;i to elections. He demanded also that the force s hould not be until the last moment, and for doing so he was arraigned by the Rig ht Hon. Gentleman opposite. He could only say that if the Cir cumstances were again to occur he should act in a similar way s (Hear, hear.) The ground of charge against him consisted only that, and he had in the most polite and civi 1 terms requested that t i : 6 troops should be stationed at St. Boswell's, instead of at Hawick. This solicitation was contained in a letter to the Sheriff. He had written also to Lord Greenock to countermand any orders that had previously her issued. There was nothing in all that corr e sp on d ence ca lculated: establish the charge which had been made aga inst hi m. Hon. Gen t ' - men opposite had said that the military were not a t a ny time t° -e e brought forward without there was an overwhelming reason, an d . , asked what was the consequence on all occasions of their introduoobt, ; the military ? In the year 1741 were there not riots industriously, mented, and had not magistrates, both before and since, been P rai a for their reluctance in the introduction of the soldiery ? A forn - " speaker had pronounced it in an address, now forgotten, that thepoge, ciple of allowing a body of armed soldiers into a town was an infr ta meat of the liberty of the subject. And what had he done contrartia that opinion but do as all men w ou ld by es tablishing in a neig hhe s . ie ns, county that force whi c h h e or d ere d, with instrtt ssthe that it was not to be used, unless necessary. He wondered at the deep terms of sorrow and remorse expresse d by the friend s Right Honourable Baron e t, that these procee di ngs should g itr or deep wound to this free country. He wondered that th %oest tisans of the Right Hon. Baronet—although expressed in the and most feeling terms—that they should have made the 5 ~,2 o a ge e h r e e 0 - ewhheeirilevthedey, ti T e ig i h ti t g r h e t m H er ,o e u r r t a h h e ie election ofCar I isle, on: et ( t b h e e f y o r h e a , d l; Parliament), and when Lord Lowther and Sir John Beckett we been down and had their legs broken. At the gaged in an election contest.—(Hear, hear.) Persons there of $ knocked sheriff, founded upon the representations of certain persons Wh° : a tioll ef they looked upon the presence of the military for the P reger s herilf tranquility, he should never be deterred from requesting the th„ugll perform that part of Isis duty which consisted in ascertain:oh w hat was the best channels of information, namely the local authoritie f the mean' the state of the country, and what the extent and character which might be employed to preserve the peace of she d of charge (Cheers.) Yet that was what he understood to be the grc atu t o to t he against him. The letter addressed lay him (the Lord A d t: t h ofJ ul a y ; sheriff; to which he had already adverted, was dated on the „ g i s trat'" On the 29th the correspondence between the sheriff and the r° ,..` or d tcsok place, and on the 31st ofJuly the sheriffwrote bi a s (the h .' e irt vocatt) a letter, which he received at a very early hour on t yOtir August. That letter was in these terms : applicati.id that made to , e "My Lord—With reference to the communication t I Lordship r yesterday, I have now to inform your LordshiP at Y °°- this day had conference therein mentioned, the result of w " tin g. Lordship will learn from the inclosed copy of the minute of rn ee ,,,, s ed " I have only further to request your Lordship will be 1",„„ you whist face favour me with your instructions, and especially to state authorise me to devolve the whole responsibility of keeping tb rt hig the , upon the Magistrates, and also the power of calling in and d ire- rc bein'' military ; and also whether your Lordship approves of the fu n" stationed at St. Boswell's instead of Denholm. • answer. " I send this by an express, who will wait your Lordship'' —I have the honour to be, & W c. " ILLIAM OLIVER RUTHE— f'OII9. " Hawick, July 31." W it h e wrote t c s o oand• To preven any mistake or any , Greenock, t the Commander-in-Chief of the misunderstanding military forces in His letter to that Noble Lord was in these terms : fro in 14 ( i . e "My Dear Lord—l have thi s morn i ng rece i ve d an exPtc s * , rar ch i Oliver Rutherford, Sheriff of R ox b urg h s hi re, an d Mr. Goodfc l ` cl - st. Magistrate of Howick. d 3 A DI " It has been proposed that the military should be sta tion` r oc.- Boswell's village instead of D en h o l m, w hi c h was f o rmerly the Sheriff. for t"8 o rder' d the re " request, therefore, that your Lord s hip will issue troop of cavalry to proceed from Earlstun to St. BosWeir s, a f j : a ns °lc wait for any orders whi c h th e comman di ng o ffi cer may receiv e Sheriff or the Chief Magistrate of Hawick.—l am, Sze. „, ft It A ere " August 1, 1838." He bad already stated that he received that letter jOti a N t a A v t er7 P-.'3-r s lY la P t °edu. ;4 the Ist of August. He observed that his answer to it Ws -3 st ni seven o'clock the same morning. It was in these terms: t . the - I " SIR,—I have had the honour of receiving your letter be , b . 3,/ July, and the minute of a meeting held at Hawick by you a t , t he C jesty's Justices or the Peace for the District of Hawick, w it Magistrates and certain inhabitants of the town of Hawick" ul oth° ofe " I approve of the minute which you have sent Ine , ri a w ick you to devolve the responsibility of keeping the peace of il.". tar y sh Magistrates of that town, as there proposed, and that the luta o f be stationed at St. Boswell's instead of Denhohn. , V aunt ttehil,ae I beg to acknowledge that I have also received your S it y the 29th of July, and the papers you refer to. Some oPseropporttwo, occurred to with regard to them, but I wish to have lan then ret, of considering those papers more attentively', and IA -11.,TittlAI" them to you.— I remain, &c., " JOHN " Aug. 1, 1837, Seve s n'o'clock, i d Now he asked in what part of those argangements there wa s a n n e Y e c er ' for a charge of partiality?—(Cheers.) In the first i 115 "... es pres s _ ta tainly felt very great apprehension from the desire which w a _7 ,tve ala t se to have the presence of military in the county ; that the Pre seP he au. ce e r from the circumstance of its being considered military would be the best means of establishing tranquillitY_;_nearan, from all his experience of such matters he believed that tho c ar_ tid nos h e felt ss_ ce o f tn of the soldiery at elections was the surest source of outra, a ca ' ur i e rt e t d o chief.—(Hear, hear.) Was he wrong, therefore, in giv in g, are enter Ilt , the sheriff and to the magistrates. The Lord Advocate, he re into further details respecting his caution to th e c . aV ini i i Right Honourable 'Friend had brought forward a rg hitssha°,s him ; let him pursue it to the utmost—(Chee rs)— i n e :„ (the ; i e upon what foundation they rested.—(Cheers.) At prese a aa th at et. Advocate) could not see the shadow of a pretence for the ch tls' r artY f e had been guilty of partiality, or that he had been influenced by Y rn cha t ing.—(Loud cheering.) It was a recognised constitutional > greate': needless introduction of the tnilitary at elections was one troduction frequently produced riots, and knowing all t his o , ugh w t r have felt himself justified in consenting to their being l!r that he breaches of the Constitution, ; it was further well known tli:t±hfotieriiiailodt, under the circumstances. Be would, in fact, have conceivediLin _ n ar e: e acting most unwarrantably if he had not resisted it. He s , ld esteemed himself highly culpable. But the Hon. Gent r e of o „pa meta made; he had as:Matted to it, and if he had not, i he in s a n ...t ° l : i: d ..,... as , tacked mittee him Would he have act upon at_othier poi ed a manly part if he had nt. ( 11 or 3 rtY nt : he had become a Membe be ar !, . hear.) If there had, been the smallest party fee lin g in his mind,